Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932439AbVIFHdR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 03:33:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932438AbVIFHdR (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 03:33:17 -0400 Received: from smtp206.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.129.96]:31614 "HELO smtp206.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932437AbVIFHdQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2005 03:33:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Subject:From:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:Date:Message-Id:Mime-Version:X-Mailer:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=rB8yZc23EutiZfOALGX/WxcNt48Z2kdgOInD+JRxLHCb1eSMnTZe+p5SUtUIW+8Q46HRdplwVA57Ri1QE/EceoFgQ/Yar6i96lTZ9niHOZ08xijV86SyjEb1MRICYqo8zlqm6PQvdnz1pti9Pf3cflT5yGI1uNXqBXrYudA6LuY= ; Subject: Re: RFC: i386: kill !4KSTACKS From: Nick Piggin To: Andi Kleen Cc: Denis Vlasenko , Alan Cox , lkml In-Reply-To: <200509060913.59822.ak@suse.de> References: <20050904145129.53730.qmail@web50202.mail.yahoo.com> <200509060939.28055.vda@ilport.com.ua> <200509060913.59822.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 17:32:57 +1000 Message-Id: <1125991977.5138.6.camel@npiggin-nld.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 952 Lines: 31 On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 09:13 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > At some point we undoubtedly will need to increase it further, > the logical point would be when Linux switches to larger softpage > sizes. Is this really a "when"? Hugh and wli were both working on this and IIRC neither could show enough justification to get people interested in it and get it merged (maybe apart from helping stupidly sized PAE systems limp along) And that was even before page size reductions and objrmap came along, which makes the potential gain even smaller. Are there still good reasons to have such a thing? Nick -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/